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SUMMARY:Joseph Banks: science\, culture and the remaking of the Indo-Pacif
 ic world - Simon Werrett (UCL)
DTSTART:20180205T130000Z
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CONTACT:Sebestian Kroupa
DESCRIPTION:In this presentation I assess the findings of a one-year AHRC-
 funded project on the career of Sir Joseph Banks\, naturalist on Cook's fi
 rst voyage and president of the Royal Society from 1778 to 1820. Against a
  view of Banks as a 'centre of calculation' participants reconsidered Bank
 s as a connecting agent among existing imperial and scientific networks mo
 bilising plants around the world and transforming British enterprises in t
 he Indo-Pacific world. Participants also explored Banks after Cook\, in a 
 period between c.1780 and 1820 that is rarely discussed in the literature.
  During this period Banks fitted into a variety of networks of men and wom
 en engaged with the sciences\, acted as an information manager and broker\
 , and managed a diverse collection of botanical and personal images and te
 xts. Participants doubted that he followed a coherent agenda in these acti
 vities.
LOCATION:Seminar Room 1\, Department of History and Philosophy of Science
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